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Oct. 19th, 2009 11:31 amSo, I went and saw "Where the Wild Things Are" with my youngest daughter. She loved it, but I think that it was because she was too young to understand the subtext.
The entire "wild things" part of the movie is an extended metaphor for the Kid dealing with his broken home life. (Dad divorced Mom. Son lives with Mom and Negligent Older Sister). That made the movie rather dark and depressing to me. Watching the 'feeling nobody listens to or love me' personified or the 'anger that everything is going all wrong' walk around and scream and moan is disconcerting. I much preferred the whimsy of the 10 sentence book.
One part i did like was the Monster "Carrol" was voiced by James Gandolfini. I was able to handle the movie much better when I thought it was a Whacky Dream Sequence from "The Sopranos" and imagined it as the REAL Finale to the series where Tony choked on a bad Onion Ring and blacked out, only to awaken as a giant muppet!
Another movie that is coming out that looks fun is "Planet 51" which is an animated movie where a human astronaut lands on a planet inhabited by space aliens and whacky hijinks ensue. (The Human is the monster, get it!)
I was kinda jazzed about the move but got confused by the casting. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays Captain Charles T. Baker. Thats cool. The Rock has proven himself to have decent acting chops, particularly in comedy roles.
However, when you watch the move Charles T. Baker is a blond haired blue eyed caucasian astronaut. The Rock is part Black part Samoan. He's a good looking man. Did they think that to sell the movie they had to make the lead caucasian? And not only white but NORDIC.
Should this bother me? I didn't complain that Mike Myers wasn't really an Ogre.
The entire "wild things" part of the movie is an extended metaphor for the Kid dealing with his broken home life. (Dad divorced Mom. Son lives with Mom and Negligent Older Sister). That made the movie rather dark and depressing to me. Watching the 'feeling nobody listens to or love me' personified or the 'anger that everything is going all wrong' walk around and scream and moan is disconcerting. I much preferred the whimsy of the 10 sentence book.
One part i did like was the Monster "Carrol" was voiced by James Gandolfini. I was able to handle the movie much better when I thought it was a Whacky Dream Sequence from "The Sopranos" and imagined it as the REAL Finale to the series where Tony choked on a bad Onion Ring and blacked out, only to awaken as a giant muppet!
Another movie that is coming out that looks fun is "Planet 51" which is an animated movie where a human astronaut lands on a planet inhabited by space aliens and whacky hijinks ensue. (The Human is the monster, get it!)
I was kinda jazzed about the move but got confused by the casting. Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays Captain Charles T. Baker. Thats cool. The Rock has proven himself to have decent acting chops, particularly in comedy roles.
However, when you watch the move Charles T. Baker is a blond haired blue eyed caucasian astronaut. The Rock is part Black part Samoan. He's a good looking man. Did they think that to sell the movie they had to make the lead caucasian? And not only white but NORDIC.
Should this bother me? I didn't complain that Mike Myers wasn't really an Ogre.
